Connecting Communities: Poverty Law through a Mental Health LENS
The Huron Women’s Shelter (Goderich, ON) will trains front-line staff working in the violence against women sector and in other grassroots agencies in rural Huron County on the intersection between poverty and mental health law. This project is an outgrowth of Connecting Communities.
$ 45,150
November 17, 2014
Connecting Communities: Tenant Schools - Focus on Rural Communities
Building on the success of a previous Connecting Communities project grant, the Federation of Metro Tenants Associations (Toronto, ON) will hold a series of trainings aimed at providing front-line workers with in-depth education on tenants’ rights in six rural communities across Ontario. This project is an outgrowth of Connecting Communities.
$ 105,610
November 17, 2014
Connecting Ottawa
Connecting Ottawa (Ottawa, ON) will continue to coordinate a consortium of over 40 legal and non-legal organizations to implement a regional plan to provide legal information and referrals to linguistic minorities.
$ 256,560
November 17, 2014
Roy & Ria McMurtry Endowment 2014
Queen's University, Faculty of Law will provide a scholarship to a law student in financial need.
$ 5,000
November 17, 2014
Technology Research Project
Luke's Place will research online conferencing services to be used to provide virtual family law services to survivors of violence against women.
$ 5,000
October 27, 2014
Refugee Hearing Preparation: A Guide for Refugee Claimants in Ontario
Kinbrace will adapt to Ontario, translate into three languages and disseminate its educational tool designed to help refugee claimants further understand the refugee determination system and increase their capacity to prepare for their refugee hearings.
$ 50,000
October 27, 2014
Ontario College Libraries: Quicklaw for fourteen college libraries which have accredited paralegal programs
Fourteen community colleges in Ontario will purchase a consortial subscription to Quicklaw, Canada's major legal information system. The subscription will allow the students and faculty of Ontario’s college paralegal programs full access to this standard electronic legal resource for both teaching and research purposes.
$ 100,000
October 27, 2014
Justice for First Nations Children and Young People is Justice for All
The Caring Society will create a customizable online educational resource on the sources of systemic disadvantage for First Nations children on reserve, available redress systems and resources, and pragmatic examples of how individuals, group and organizations can address them.
$ 91,348
October 27, 2014
Access to Justice and Support for Refugee Claimants through the Refugee Determination and Appeal Processes
The FCJ Refugee Centre will implement two new programs for refugee claimants - the READY Tour, and the RAD Ready Tour - as well as continue to provide direct support to uprooted populations and training to refugee serving agency staff in the refugee determination process.
$ 50,000
October 27, 2014
The Coordinated Case Management Project for High Conflict Custody and Access Cases
This is a pilot project in the Ottawa Family Court for high conflict custody and access cases. The goal is to provide high conflict families with enhanced access to judicial and community resources and support as they enter the court system to help them resolve parenting disputes promptly and efficiently, while shielding the children as much as possible from the negative consequences of their parents' conflict.
$ 99,500
October 27, 2014
